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    "id": 927805,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Dr. Mutunga is my friend. So, if I am given a chance, he has as well gotten a chance. This is an opportune time for amending the Statistics Act, which has been with us for many years. It is also time for us to align the Act with the new constitutional dispensation and with the best practices. The issue of statistics goes to the core of human welfare and to the core of a sophisticated and advanced society. We use data, which are eventually translated into statistics, to make far- reaching decisions, including critical decisions that affect lives of people in a more profound manner than anything else. It is therefore important that our statistical data set should be beyond reproach, as they say, like Caesar’s wife. I never saw her. So, I believe what they said is true. One of the fundamental issues that underpin the confidence of statistical data is the integrity of the process. The integrity of the process is achieved by the way we conceptualise the problem and the need to collect data, the way we frame up data collection tools and most critically and importantly, the people charged with the responsibility of collecting the data. As an example, we are going to have the National Housing and Population Census that we hold after every 10 years. Many of us in Kenya know that the 1999 Census had issues. So was the one for 2009 in respect of seemingly exaggerated figures from some parts of the country. I just hope that this year, KNBS will preside over a process that will achieve what is correctly true. As we have always said, you can always do anything with data, including manipulating it, and making any conclusion you wish. In academic research, we have the principle of replicability such that if somebody collected data to respond to the same problem they should come up with more or less the same conclusion. When many of us quote data from KNBS, there has always been the question: Is the data correct? This is because there has been a question of credibility and how the process is done. Many Kenyans are reluctant to offer details because they fear those details will essentially end up in the wrong hands, either to help in prosecution or malicious use of data information. That is why I am happy that the proposed Bill has literally criminalised and made it impossible for an investigator or anybody else to use that data for purposes of investigation and prosecution. We suppose that approach will allow a higher The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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